Sometimes a Single Leaf

<p>Whether in poetry fiction radio drama or sound installations Esther Dischereit's work represents a unique departure in recent European writing: a distinctive off-beat syntax of German-Jewish intimacy with the fractured consciousness and deeply rutted cultural landscape of today's Germany. <em>Sometimes a Single Leaf</em> mirroring the development of Esther Dischereit's poetry across three decades includes selections from three of her books as well as a sampling of more recent uncollected poems. It is her first book of poetry in English translation.</p><p>"From these splinters flowers bloom: <br />where the dead lie trees grow and <br />we must walk among them. In these poems <br />Esther Dischereit whose mother was one <br />of the few who survived the Holocaust <br />in hiding within Nazi Germany <br />lays the present over the past with <br />piercing effect."<br />Preti Taneja author of Wir die wir jung sind</p>